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UPDATE: It is now possible to visit the new MADb here https://madb.mageialinux-online.org/. It will take a bit longer for https://madb.mageia.org/ to link to it.

Written by aguador.

In Mageia, MADb, the Mageia App Db, has been an essential tool, particularly for QA (Quality Assurance) testers. It is the goto site for information on applications in our repositories with links to bug reports, priorities for updates, version comparisons and more. Searchable by Mageia version and CPU architecture, the site has not only been key for developers and testers, but many users as well who have found it an alternative to searching with our MCC control center or the command line when looking for a package to do (“whatever”).

But, er, “Houston, we have a problem.” If I go to MADb (https://madb.mageia.org/) all I got was the error message below and now a redirect to this post!

MADb was not affected by the move of Mageia’s servers announced on this blog (https://blog.mageia.org/en/2024/10/08/most-of-our-servers-will-be-offline-because-they-are-relocating/) early this month because it was originally developed by two of our contributors many years ago, and running on a different server. Mageia.Org took over ownership of their rented server a few months ago. Unfortunately, that server passed away and since the technology behind the old MADb is not compatible with newer infrastructure (mostly newer php-version), we cannot bring it back as it was. However, not all was lost!

Back in April, papoteur had submitted his initial work on a new version of MADb for testing…and since then it has undergone numerous revisions and improvements. However, it still remains “under wraps” for most users (like the author of this post!) until everyone, above all papoteur, is satisfied that it is not only a solid db interface for users, but is even better than before.

Since MADb has played such a vital role in testing, the development version is available to the QA team and other testers. It is only fair that they get the first look and use given all the work they do to assure that Mageia remains a quality distro. The rest of us simply need a bit more patience.

Ah, and not to forget the servers, not only was the move successful, with the other services affected now back up and running smoothly, but we expect to announce more good news about our servers, soon. Apart from that, most Mageia mirrors are in a good shape (they are all hosted on external servers, which we do not control).

In Mageia/9/x86_64: Mesa is an OpenGL 4.6 compatible 3D graphics library.

In Mageia/9/aarch64: Mesa is an OpenGL 4.6 compatible 3D graphics library.

In Mageia/9/armv7hl: Mesa is an OpenGL 4.6 compatible 3D graphics library.

In Mageia/9/i586: Mesa is an OpenGL 4.6 compatible 3D graphics library.

In Mageia/cauldron/x86_64: Rachota is a portable application for timetracking different projects. It runs everywhere. It displays time data in diagram form, creates customized reports and invoices or analyses measured data and suggests hints to improve user's time usage. The totally portable yet personal timetracker.

In Mageia/cauldron/i586: Rachota is a portable application for timetracking different projects. It runs everywhere. It displays time data in diagram form, creates customized reports and invoices or analyses measured data and suggests hints to improve user's time usage. The totally portable yet personal timetracker.

In Mageia/cauldron/i586: A program to convert images from PPM format into the control language for the Alps Micro-Dry printers, at various times sold by Citizen, Alps and Okidata. This program drives the Alps Micro-Dry series of printers, including the Citizen Printiva series, Alps MD series, and Oki DP series (but not yet the DP-7000). In the current release, the program drives the standard mode fairly well; the dye sublimation mode very well; and the VPhoto mode reasonably well. It supports all the colours available up to the DP-5000, including the foil colours.

In Mageia/cauldron/x86_64: A program to convert images from PPM format into the control language for the Alps Micro-Dry printers, at various times sold by Citizen, Alps and Okidata. This program drives the Alps Micro-Dry series of printers, including the Citizen Printiva series, Alps MD series, and Oki DP series (but not yet the DP-7000). In the current release, the program drives the standard mode fairly well; the dye sublimation mode very well; and the VPhoto mode reasonably well. It supports all the colours available up to the DP-5000, including the foil colours.

In Mageia/cauldron/x86_64: This tool tries to recover JFIF (JPEG) pictures and MOV movies (using recovermov) from a peripheral. This may be useful if you mistakenly overwrite a partition or if a device such as a digital camera memory card is bogus.

In Mageia/cauldron/i586: This tool tries to recover JFIF (JPEG) pictures and MOV movies (using recovermov) from a peripheral. This may be useful if you mistakenly overwrite a partition or if a device such as a digital camera memory card is bogus.

In Mageia/cauldron/x86_64: Rdfind is a program that finds duplicate files. It is useful for compressing backup directories or just finding duplicate files. It compares files based on their content, NOT on their file names.

In Mageia/cauldron/i586: Rdfind is a program that finds duplicate files. It is useful for compressing backup directories or just finding duplicate files. It compares files based on their content, NOT on their file names.

In Mageia/cauldron/x86_64: Unifont is a Unicode font with a glyph for every visible Unicode Basic Multilingual Plane code point and more, with supporting utilities to modify the font. This package contains tools and glyph descriptions.

In Mageia/cauldron/i586: Unifont is a Unicode font with a glyph for every visible Unicode Basic Multilingual Plane code point and more, with supporting utilities to modify the font. This package contains tools and glyph descriptions.

In Mageia/cauldron/i586: RANCID monitors a router's (or more generally a device's) configuration, including software and hardware (cards, serial numbers, etc) and uses CVS (Concurrent Version System) or Subversion to maintain history of changes. RANCID does this by the very simple process summarized here: * login to each device in the router table (router.db), * run various commands to get the information that will be saved, * cook the output; re-format, remove oscillating or incrementing data, * email any differences (sample) from the previous collection to a mail list, * and finally commit those changes to the revision control system RANCID also includes looking glass software. It is based on Ed Kern's looking glass which was once used for http://nitrous.digex.net/, for the old-school folks who remember it. Our version has added functions, supports Cisco, Juniper, and Foundry and uses the login scripts that come with rancid; so it can use telnet or ssh to connect to your devices(s). Rancid currently supports Cisco routers, Juniper routers, Catalyst switches, Foundry switches, Redback NASs, ADC EZT3 muxes, MRTd (and thus likely IRRd), Alteon switches, and HP Procurve switches and a host of others. Rancid is known to be used at: AOL, Global Crossing, MFN, NTT America, Certainty Solutions Inc.

In Mageia/cauldron/x86_64: RANCID monitors a router's (or more generally a device's) configuration, including software and hardware (cards, serial numbers, etc) and uses CVS (Concurrent Version System) or Subversion to maintain history of changes. RANCID does this by the very simple process summarized here: * login to each device in the router table (router.db), * run various commands to get the information that will be saved, * cook the output; re-format, remove oscillating or incrementing data, * email any differences (sample) from the previous collection to a mail list, * and finally commit those changes to the revision control system RANCID also includes looking glass software. It is based on Ed Kern's looking glass which was once used for http://nitrous.digex.net/, for the old-school folks who remember it. Our version has added functions, supports Cisco, Juniper, and Foundry and uses the login scripts that come with rancid; so it can use telnet or ssh to connect to your devices(s). Rancid currently supports Cisco routers, Juniper routers, Catalyst switches, Foundry switches, Redback NASs, ADC EZT3 muxes, MRTd (and thus likely IRRd), Alteon switches, and HP Procurve switches and a host of others. Rancid is known to be used at: AOL, Global Crossing, MFN, NTT America, Certainty Solutions Inc.

In Mageia/cauldron/x86_64: Redis is an advanced key-value store. It is often referred to as a data structure server since keys can contain strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets. You can run atomic operations on these types, like appending to a string; incrementing the value in a hash; pushing to a list; computing set intersection, union and difference; or getting the member with highest ranking in a sorted set. In order to achieve its outstanding performance, Redis works with an in-memory dataset. Depending on your use case, you can persist it either by dumping the dataset to disk every once in a while, or by appending each command to a log. Redis also supports trivial-to-setup master-slave replication, with very fast non-blocking first synchronization, auto-reconnection on net split and so forth. Other features include Transactions, Pub/Sub, Lua scripting, Keys with a limited time-to-live, and configuration settings to make Redis behave like a cache. You can use Redis from most programming languages also.

In Mageia/cauldron/i586: Redis is an advanced key-value store. It is often referred to as a data structure server since keys can contain strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets. You can run atomic operations on these types, like appending to a string; incrementing the value in a hash; pushing to a list; computing set intersection, union and difference; or getting the member with highest ranking in a sorted set. In order to achieve its outstanding performance, Redis works with an in-memory dataset. Depending on your use case, you can persist it either by dumping the dataset to disk every once in a while, or by appending each command to a log. Redis also supports trivial-to-setup master-slave replication, with very fast non-blocking first synchronization, auto-reconnection on net split and so forth. Other features include Transactions, Pub/Sub, Lua scripting, Keys with a limited time-to-live, and configuration settings to make Redis behave like a cache. You can use Redis from most programming languages also.

In Mageia/cauldron/i586: qpwgraph is a graph manager dedicated to PipeWire, using the Qt C++ framework, based and pretty much like the same of QjackCtl.